DOJ: Philly Police Make "Significant Progress" on Recommendations

WTXF - The Department of Justice is giving Philadelphia Police high marks for improving its handling of cases in which interactions between police and civilians turn violent.

That initial report requested by Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey after a spike in the number of police-involved shootings.

The Justice Department was critical of Philly Police from soup to nuts: Painting a picture of a department that needed to dramatically re-think how it dealt with potentially violent interactions with suspects and, just plain civilians.

Six months later...the picture is much brighter.

After reviewing records showing Philly police shoot someone on average, once a week- with one in five of those people unarmed- the DOJ told cops to fix a broken system: issuing 91 recommendations, to improve everything from officer training, to handling of high-pressure interactions to more professionally investigating when things go wrong.

Six months later, the feds say 90 percent of those recommended "fixes" are complete, partly complete or in progress.